No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD

kristatos

under system-image.ubports.com there are some images for this device.

arubislander

@kristatos said in No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD:

under system-image.ubports.com there are some images for this device.

But that is the UBports version of UT. If I remember correctly you need to flash the Canonical version before flashing the UBports version of UT.

tacetion

@arubislander Exactly! That's why I'm looking for the Canonical factory zip. Since BQ's servers are dead, do you (or anyone) have a mirror of the original vegetafhd factory firmware? I need the MT6592 scatter and the raw images to prep the partitions before I move to UBports. Android Lollipop is a dead end!

MrT10001

@tacetion I have rooted through the internet archive and struggle to find much on the E5 FHD.. I would need to look deeper... It must have been one of the inbetween or end of life devices with little investment.

arubislander

@MrT10001 No, it was officially supported by Canonical. Even came with UT pre installed.

But I would be surprised if those images are still floating around anywhere.

I had to go through similar steps to flash my Meizu Pro 5. But at that time the Canonical images were still available.

All of this said though, that generation of devices never made it past Xenial. So @tacetion, I am afraid even if you did get to flash UT on your device, it would be just as much of a dead end now as Lollipop is.

kristatos

Maybe do you mean this ZIP-File

kugiigi

I don't remember this device getting UT support. I only know bq E4.5 and bq E5 HD.

arubislander

@kugiigi You might be right. I must have been thinking of the BQ M10 (F)HD line.

Lakotaubp

@arubislander @kugiigi is right it was the HD version. Just sorted the original box out. The tablet was FHD just found that too.

arubislander

@Lakotaubp Then I guess the OP can abandon hope.

MrT10001

@arubislander said in No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD:

No, it was officially supported by Canonical. Even came with UT pre installed.

That I know, but when a device has so little information on it, even sales documents, one must assume it wasn't popular and was probably eol of a line or an inbetweener. There i plenty about the HD though.

What I did find was this however useful this is! (Downloads work, but it is not UT so meandering.....)

I am surprised there is no Canonical archive.